Post from Marie Sweets BBW · September 5, 2025

Thank you all for reaching out to me.

I am OK. Grief moves in mysterious ways and I am sure it’ll hit me again once I am home. Both of these friends were some of the sweetest people I have ever met. Inviting, sincere, playful, curious, non-judgmental and loving. Both showed up whenever anyone needed them. Both facilitated so many wonderful memories.

The outpouring of love for these two people continues to flow so strongly that I have had to stay off my social media account because I get overwhelmed. Dozens of photos. Everyone changing their PFPs to memories with them. They ran in the same social circle which makes this hit harder.

To be so loved and so loudly is such a gift. To be allowed to meet people who make us carry so much unexpressed love it must be expressed as grief when the time comes is also a gift. How special and transformative.

I wish we lived in a world where karma was real and the best of us lived until a peaceful passage late in life.

Please reach out to people you love or those you miss. Don’t assume time will be there tomorrow.